Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyric Theatre to perform such easily negotiable gems as Ah, Love but a Day by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, it had to be placed in the orchestra seats while the audience sat on the stage. When part of the national chorus, transported to the World's Fair, reached the climax of the Federation's week-a concert in the Court of Peace-it encountered competition. A carillon in the Belgian Pavilion was ding-donging for all it was worth. The chorus, aided by the club-ladies who valiantly joined in the singing, put up a good fight...
...another. In his first cinema music, for the documentary film The City (see p. 66), he wrote a score which well expressed the calm of a New England village, the bustle of a big city, the well-being of a model town. At the New York World's Fair, he had another: Copland tunes t accompanied giant puppets in the Hall of Pharmacy. And, although they never got to Broadway, the Mercury Theatre's Five Kings and the Group Theatre's Quiet City were provided with Copland scores...
...Flushing, N. Y., World's Fair bus horns, instead of raucous honks, dulcetly tootle a few bars of The Sidewalks of New York. Results: Instead of getting out of the way, pedestrians stop to listen; Copyright Owner Max Mayer decided to demand royalties for each performance...
This week Dos Passos published a book that bids fair to cook his goose for good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum...
...noggin. Over Sacramento in a plane, Dr. W. Stanley was frantic because the ring had been a gift from Theodore Roosevelt. To Mrs. Briggs, of whom he heard by radio, Dr. Stanley few days later gave $325 and a trip to the New York World's Fair...